Understanding Islam

Beginning the current month on a wishful spiritual-high after attending Ustad AbdelRahman Murphy’s enlightening HeartWork Tour. As the tour title suggests, the focus of the talk was on the miraculous nature of the heart, both in its physical, but more importantly, spiritual capacity. The word قلب or heart, is mentioned by Allah (swt) 168 times in the Qur’an, and though its literal meaning is the Arabic for ‘heart’, it is also derivative of the nature of flipping, toppling or turning. The…